I have been asked a couple times about advertising their site(s) in forum signatures. Here are just a couple quick things.
Find forums that are related to your site and get posting! Make plenty of new “non spammy†type threads and reply to post as much as you can, making sure they are helpful and respectful post, you don’t want to get banned right away.
Follow Signature Restrictions
All forums will have different rules, follow these. Some will not allow advertising of a competing forum or site, some will limit the lines, colors, and images. Make sure that you know and follow all these rules ahead of time. You want your mini campaign to be successful.
Have fun and get posting
We temporarily paused our campaign this week and we will be implementing some new Adwords campaigns next week. We wanted to tweak it a little.
Also Next week it will be going out in a couple of forum’s newsletters, so that should help also.
We will be starting some banner ads this week on a couple of sites as well as a MSN search campaign.
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Link to Official Announcement
Microsoft has a great thing going on right now. It’s their 2nd Annual Small Business Summit There are some great seminars that you can still attend and best of all, the past seminars will be available on-demand 72 hours after they air.
The best thing, it’s FREE!!!
I have attended about 6 seminars so far and plan to attend a couple more before the end of the week. The next one I am attending will be on Microsoft AdCenter.
Well our 1st week of our Adwords campaign wasn’t as successful has we had hoped.
The impressions versus clicks were very low, but the clicks did equal a couple of members and some post, it’s a start. So far our ROI is very good on the campaign.
We will be trying a couple new things this week to see if it improves. Plus we will be adding a couple of banners and a couple of other spots on some other sites.
